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Can we talk Republican inclusiveness?
All day yesterday the drumbeat from pundits and GOP mouthpieces was that Republicans must be more welcoming to minorities. Duh! However, how do they do that? The original Southern Strategy which sent African Americans and many pro-civil rights whites to the Democratic party was bad enough, but the Rovian "play to the base" strategy doubled and tripled down on that. The base of the Republican party embraces philosophies that were out of the mainstream by the mid-fifties at the latest. So how does the GOP appeal the very people that have been set up as the bogeypersons to that base. The fact that the Republicans depend on the majority of the white vote is a glass half full scenario as I see it. Am I wrong?
